Background on Unit One- This year, we are starting Unit one off with an introduction to all things culture...your own culture, your class culture, the culture of where you live, and then eventually moving on to Indian Culture. Once we have talked about Indians and Pioneers, we are going to look closely at Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.
Background on Unit One- This year, we are starting Unit one off with an introduction to all things culture...your own culture, your class culture, the culture of where you live, and then eventually moving on to Indian Culture. Once we have talked about Indians and Pioneers, we are going to look closely at Westward Expansion and Manifest Destiny.
Great videos for Introduction to the Unit/What is culture?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT0kzF4A-WQ&safe=active
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpPq_V4NOnc&safe=active
American Culture
http://www.americanfamilytraditions.com/american_culture.htm
Teaching a Native American American Theme
http://www.mce.k12tn.net/indians/teaching/reading.htm
National American Indian Month
http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/calendar-activities/november-national-american-indian-20618.html
Culture Clues Expedition
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/familyx/08/cultureclues.html
Life of a Navajo Weaver
http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/educators/lessons/grade-3-4/Life_of_Navajo_Weaver.aspx
Countries and Their Cultures
http://www.everyculture.com/multi/index.html
Native American Culture
http://kids.yahoo.com/directory/Around-the-World/Countries/United-States/Cultures-and-Traditions/Native-American/Shelters
http://library.thinkquest.org/J0110072/crafts/native_american_crafts.htm
http://www.nanations.com/indian_tribes_nations.htm
http://www2.gsu.edu/~eslmlm/chiefjoseph.html
http://thewildwest.org/
http://www.native-languages.org/languages.htm
Literature Resources
http://www.dream-catchers.org/
http://www.firstpeople.us/html/You_Are_Part_Of_Me.html
http://www.shadowwolf.org/prayers.html
Trickster Tales
http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/trickster+tale
http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fmembers.cox.net%2Facademia%2Fcoyote.html&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNGlm1gvihvmFdLX0icGfsvANiAaPg
http://edsitement.neh.gov/lesson-plan/fables-and-trickster-tales-around-world
http://www.takomapark.info/library/children/archives/000340.html
Pioneers and Indians
http://www.ic.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/amer3.htm
Westward Expansion
http://www.history.com/topics/westward-expansion
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/westwardexpansion/preview.weml